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As a beginner, best to stick to a 5-ply all-wood blade in the ALL+/OFF- spectrum for at least the first 5 years of playing.

Some Butterfly shoes used to be made by Asics but that's no longer the case.

Yasaka Alnade Inner Made in Japan Coming out on December 7th.

Thank you for the details thus far BeTWO. Good looking blade! Let us know how the 2 blades compare in terms of playing characteristics once you've tried the Pro-01. Which store did you purchase it from on Aliexpress?

I currently use the Lezoline Rifones but have also played with the Wave Drives 8 (and previous versions too). Both are excellent shoes in my opinion, but are a bit different as some people have highlighted, and it depends on what your preferences are in a shoe. The Lezoline Rifones have a...

A 7-ply all wood blade is usually a good place to start: Stiga Clipper, Butterfly SK7... The Nittaku Goriki is also very popular with short pips players in Japan.

It's been out since March 2020. It's a 5+2 fiber plies blade. Apparently is close in kick and speed as a Viscaria but has more of a wood feel. Some pros are starting to use CNF.

I hope they'll make replays of matches available too. Gotta say, these 5-point games seem very silly to me... I think the points format should remain cohesive throughout TT or the sport loses credibility.

The schedule is there: https://results.ittf.com/ittf-web-results/html/TTE5265/results.html#/results/2020-11-25 It has to be on ITTV if nowhere else. They cannot not show this with the big sponsors and all.

I'd also recommend Xiom Vega Intro on both sides, 2mm. But since he's so new to the game, probably better he sticks to Mark V.

There's already a thread about this: https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?24445-World-Table-Tennis-Macao-2020 FZD pulled out for personal reasons. ZJK has suffered through many injuries.

The list of players has changed a bit since then: https://www.ittf.com/2020/11/24/32-stars-lined-wtt-macao/ I'm excited to see so many Chinese players and especially the return of Wang Chuquin and Zhao Zihao who we haven't seen in a while. It'll also be interesting to see what Fang Bo still has...

+1 for the Hadraw VK. I own a VK and a Oh Sang Eun, they're the most similar. The Korbel Japan or Harimoto ALC might also do the trick, or perhaps the Innerforce ZLC (I find ZLC to be especially good for BH).

Lin Gaoyuan, Wong Chun Ting and Lee Sangsu as well.

In China, FZD's nickname translate to "Little Chubby".

In conclusion, ML and FZD are using warped blades with white edge tape and their hands don't sweat on their handle causing discoloration (like the rest of us common mortals), and FZD is obviously not using a carbon blade (especially not a Viscaria as demonstrated many times before)...

Literally. Like seeing white edge tape on FZD and ML's paddles... ;)

I can see the black/blue carbon layer at the bottom, especially on the right side. It stands out from the rest of the wood.

You guys are seeing things! :D

Stiga Calibra series